Bunion surgery in Leeds & Harrogate

Hallux valgus (bunions) can be extremely painful. A thorough assessment & discussion of your options, including corrective treatment with bunion surgery in Leeds & Harrogate is available with Mark Farndon privately at the following locations:

The diagram below shows the normal soft tissue balance around the big toe joint and the imbalanced bone and soft tissues that exist when a bunion is present. A combination of bony and soft tissue surgery is used to achieve correction.

Post-operative xrays showing bilateral (simultaneous) bunion correction using scarf osteotomies to cut and reset the metatarsals. The intermetatarsal angles are corrected to normal range, the sesamoids are reduced beneath the metatarsal heads and the hallux valgus is corrected.

This surgery is usually undertaken as a day case procedure, under a brief general anaesthetic, with a long acting ankle nerve block to keep the foot comfortable.

After bunion surgery in Leeds & Harrogate undertaken by Mark Farndon, patients are allowed to weight bear in a protective Podalux shoe immediately after surgery, though are advised to elevate the foot / feet as much as possible for the first two weeks to allow wound healing and to let any swelling settle.

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Knee replacement after patellectomy

Dear Mr Farndon,

Here is a copy of the photo I showed you at my consultation.

Eight months after a total knee replacement I was able to get to the top of mountains again (in this photo the Devil’s Staircase in Glencoe) something I never thought I would be able to do again. The next day the knee was perfect, no swelling or stiffness.

Once again thank you so much for your skill and expertise which has helped me return to a more active life style.

Karen Maltas

Mark Farndon is an orthopaedic surgeon specialising in knee, foot and ankle surgery in Leeds and Harrogate, Yorkshire.